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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McA has alot of out of boundary students. Momentum is not quite there with neighbors yet. [/quote]

Growing by the year. Next year is the first year where Hardy students don’t have a choice on feeder pattern. Buy-in and excitement of current Hardy students is very strong. We have a rising Hardy 8th grader and are planning on McA. Tipping point is coming very, very soon. If not next year, definitely the year after. This school is extremely promising [/quote]

Or they could go private or lottery elsewhere. [/quote]

There aren't enough private and lottery seats to go around. At our high income McA feeder, kids leave in elementary or middle school to secure seats at private schools. By the time high school rolls around, everyone who isn't comfortable with the feeder pattern (Hardy and JR up until now) is long gone. Sure, some families will scramble, but the average wealth in the feeder neighborhoods is significantly higher than in Deal/JR neighborhoods and people aren't relying solely on one year's worth of application/lottery luck for their kids' educations.

There are also a lot of very engaged OOB families at the feeders that have been driving their kids across town to H-A or other feeders for years and years. They don't have the resources to apply out in fourth grade like IB families, but are also going to drive up the academic expectations and economic demographics of the OOB population once they don't have the option for JR.

It's easy to look at the school currently and write it off, but original PP is correct that there's a lot of momentum and once the feeder pattern is Hardy to McA only, the school is going to change quickly and significantly. Guessing in the next 3-5 years it will look a lot like Hardy - about 10-15% at-risk and one-third OOB. [/quote]

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